I could liken it to Weimar-era Germany but despite the similaries, the 1930s and 2020s are still thoroughly different cultural moments. Weimar comparisons just invite doomerism
The 2020s genuinely feels like such a weird cultural moment, like there is more creativity and self-expression than ever before, versus a gaggle of mad reactionaries guided by open sex criminals.
If you wrote this in fiction you'd be asked to tone it down
Makes me think of the photos that also emerged from the first Gulf War too, genuinely nightmarish stuff!! And a lot of the conflict in the MENA region hurts more for personal reasons too
He's been a wonderful man to talk to as well, seems to know almost everyone in the UK effects biz...and his career's impressive too, his site's just a sample of his work!!
grahamhighartist.com/films
Shot of the anatomical display sculpture Graham High made for Ken Russell's Gothic
Another shot of the anatomical sculpture High made for Russell's Gothic
Shot of the prosthetic eyes - yes, they were prosthetics, but mechanized to blink! - made for Gothic
shot of the Timothy Spall likeness puppet made for Gothic
A teaser of things to come... yes I have been chatting to Graham High via phone and email, about his work especially on Gothic and Company of Wolves...this is only a sample of what he's sent of his Gothic work...more to come!
A drawing of Keisha and her son Keenan Keenan: Actually... I think you're just the weirdo...
"Your mom's kinda weird"
#art #TheDichromaticPages #traditionalart
ink drawing of a gazelle like skeletal monster with gaps cut out to show collaged material behind it in the eye sockets, mouth and ribcage. Behind it are collaged magazine elements- watches, appliances, tools.
Tech - drawing / collage #art #drawing #collage #traditionalart #monster #monsterart #collageart
two people flexing back toward the viewer as they are whipped by the sudden deceleration of their convertible hurtling toward a potentially supernatural buck in the road
art by enrico robusti
Just wanna say I love the scratchy inkwork here, really sells the mood (even if a petty one)
sitelen e akesi seli.
Painting of a dragon.
Paul Neagu (1938-2004)
Human Heart
The "Vern" to whom Ernest P. Worrell is speaking is Werner Herzog
So cute!
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That (pretty cool!) mask is now provoking me to play my favorite game (spurred by nearly a decade of running a costume design blog): 'bought, or custom-made?'
I remember really liking this as a teenager, I've been meaning to revisit it for a long while! I loved its art direction especially
Read some prose excerpts I wrote back in 2024 and winced. This is a sign I have to get back to writing my own stuff again.
on that note I wonder if anyone else noticed how much Whisperer in Darkness is a forerunner to a lot of UFO close encounter stuff
Yeah it was very much in the zeitgeist at the time! I still have to see the Corman Lovecraft adaptations they look fun!
yeah ironically as I typed this thread it also had me thinking more on how markedly different they are in the writing (let alone the tone)
tho man RIP Stuart Gordon!!
I suppose in From Beyond it was more a one-sided sadomasochism as Pretorius definitely seemed to be enjoying himself even as a face-sucking monster.
Frank Cotton was a creep but it felt like he didnt really enjoy getting a taste of his own medicine
Creepy pervert in the house (Pretorius may as well be Jeffrey Combs' uncle) that ends up going to a dimension of sadomasochistic pleasure and comes back as a grody freak.
I forgot to say but I rewatched From Beyond the other day and huh, its funny how it actually hits a fair few similar beats to Hellraiser.
A scan of a mag issue from August 1989 with planetoids in flight with speed trails, zooming to a swirling maelstrom of light overlaid over a gas giant.
Orbs and ringed planets hover over classic pillars, while a cresting wave ringed by particles and starlight against a cosmic backdrop
An art deco skyscraper formed of many smaller skyscrapers into a narrowed point rises out of a rocky pool beneath a red sky
The cosmic 70s and 80s sci-fi vibe covers of Oh! X, a magazine aimed at Sharp computers, chiefly the X68000.
I also need to speak my truth that the System Shock remake is a disgrace btw
This is how I access Bluesky
ink drawing of a monstrous two headed dog with a snake tail, on its back haunch reads the text "bimbo on board"
I'd rediscovered a sketch of this guy and liked it enough to ink it haha #drawing #art #furryart #furry #furryartist #anthroart
This site is a crock but one of the ONLY good things about it was being able to control replys so that you didnt have to endure every single sad rando eager for an argument.
